See my post immediately before this one if you need a quick boost, but if you need evidence that my attitude has genuinely always been the same as what I advise on, you can verify it by reading the books I wrote even if you go through them in order.
The Face on Mars and the realisations that go with it would have probably spiralled almost anyone into a hole of despair given the reality it implied about life on this planet. For me instead it became a freedom from having to care at all about pretty much everything they try and convince you is “important” in order to control you.
The Systema book encoded my personal life philosophies mixed in with the activity I have done the longest in my life, martial arts, and demystified the “supernatural”, yet very real, abilities one can gain from extended practice of this close quarter combat system. Years of karate had accumulated quite a lot of injuries, yet here was a system that generally healed more than it damaged yet was even more effective in real confrontations and had the added benefit of being mentally and spiritually reinforcing.
Believe! Was a short introduction to Christianity aimed at people like me, that is, practical skeptics that thought religion and Christianity specifically was just so much nonsense thought up just to control more people and to support mentally weak losers. It resulted in an unexpected number of people converting to proper Catholicism, getting married, having children and finding God. I continue to receive regular emails about it.
Reclaiming the Catholic Church in paper format or in ebook format was an exhaustive work explaining how and why what most people think is the Catholic Church is in fact a completely usurped fake Church run by Satanists, and how the real Catholic Church is now only left in the sedevacantist Churches. In detail that has been irrefutable. Again, for most people, discovering the biggest religion on Earth, Christianity, has been almost totally subverted, would be a spiritual, emotional and mental blow they might not recover from. For me, it has been a glorifying experience to delve deeper into actual Christianity, the only Christianity that ever existed, and that rose from a mere eleven frightened men and four faithful women, to the salvation of the world. To begin to build the start of a community of proper Catholics (sedevacantists) and thus, eventually return our children and grand-children to a sense of honour, duty, honesty, beauty and justice that none of us have experienced in our lives has been both very hard and yet the most rewarding activity of my life.
And all my fiction books ultimately are the essence of rebelling against injustice and overcoming it.
My published writing so far covers almost 30 years, with Nazi Moon being the thread of science fiction that covered that entire period and you can see that it is ultimately always a sense of combat against the darkness that has always coloured my existence. I tell you this so that you can see it is real and possible to live this way, and I did it without even any religion or belief in any personal God for most of my life, so you can too.
And of course Surviving the Current Zombie Apocalypse is really just a fun way you and your friends can play a game that will begin to foster that way of thinking while you laugh and enjoy the stories that you will create together.
So, whatever your situation, believe, have faith, even if you don’t know it, there is a God and yes he does know about you, specifically and deeply, and he does love you. If you can’t fathom how that could be given your grim circumstances, then I suggest you read Believe! As its main strength is probably that it has been able to provide enough evidence that is logical and makes sense even to the most hardened skeptics, as it is the kind of book I would very much have liked to come across in my early twenties, instead of having to write it a quarter century or more later.
Believe, friend, you are loved. You might not know it yet, but you are.
I hope you have had a Happy Christmas, and that 2024 will bring you peace and serenity, but either way, know you count and are worthwhile.
May God’s Grace fill you.
How not to get strangled
I’m going to tell you a true story. It genuinely is a true story, and interesting, however, it may also be an allegory for our times.
How does a sneaky predator try to kill and eat you?
Sneakily.
It tries to gently slide up to you and then strikes suddenly and tries to choke you to death. That’s what it does naturally. Of course, some of us are so foolish as to think such a natural predator might be a cute animal or make a fun pet, or can be played with because we are generally familiar with predators and are aware the dangers are usually exaggerated. Or perhaps, you just want to keep the python alive, which is a noble idea —at least as far as pythons go (the same is not noble or smart when it comes to the metaphorical pythons you may encounter in urban life)— and yet, also make the python safe for others by removing it to a place where it is not likely to eat small children or other innocents. So maybe you just want to pick it up to put in a bag for transport to a safer place.
And at such times, a small lapse in attention can result in you being quickly smothered by the sneaky snake, like say, a python, that you may have thought was perfectly safe to try and place in the bag, because you’re familiar with them, and besides you are surrounded by other people you know quite well and surely if anything happened they would intervene.
And then, it turns out the people you thought you knew well have a sudden “phobia” about snakes in general, or pythons in particular, or just are generally not made of the same stuff you are, and so panic, or get scared or simply decide, hey, it’s not my problem, and you’re now nicely wrapped up by a giant python that has decided you’re a tasty snack to eat. And despite your previous experience, you may suddenly find yourself in trouble and with no actual help forthcoming from anywhere. Pinned too hard to free yourself and the constriction continuing to increase, if you panic, are prone to try to be civilised about it, rely on the help of “friends” or the general “public”, you can rest assured that your not too distant future will be to be transformed into python and a giant python turd of the parts of you he couldn’t digest.
A natural fighter however, doesn’t think that way. A natural fighter uses that small grip he still has on the snake’s head to bring it close enough, yes, even closer than the constricting snake is already doing, and…
bites it in the head, breaking it’s skull open and wrecking its brain.
No hesitation, no worries, and no more python problems.
I hope this true story serves you as a good metaphor for certain situations that may occur in your life in the future.
Happy New Year dad.
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By G | 31 December 2023 | Posted in Social Commentary